BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence
For the past several years, Business Intelligence has been the #1 top ranked IT priority for CIOs and business leaders according to Gartner. It is a very exciting time to be in the BI space, with massive investments from Microsoft in their 2016 wave of products specifically focused on this area. Not only are there major product releases on the horizon, specifically SharePoint & SQL 2016, but Power BI continues to release updates, new features, and content packs on a very regular basis.
Microsoft MVPs John White & Jason Himmelstein will attempt to keep you up to date on all of the latest and greatest BI changes every month. They will give some interesting tips & tricks, show fun features, bring on relevant guests, answer your questions, cover the News, and generally have a great time with this exciting topic.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 304
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Episode 64 - Ignite Schedule Builder
This is episode 64 recorded on September 6th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Ignite and an alternative way to find sessions using Power BI.
For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
00:24:29 |
Fri 07 Sep 2018
Episode 63 - Interview with Christian Wade
This is episode 63 recorded on August 30th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Christian Wade, Senior Program Manager for Analysis Services at Microsoft, about Power BI in the Enterprise, the upcoming A…
00:35:33 |
Fri 31 Aug 2018
Episode 62 - Interview with Adam Saxton
This is episode 62 recorded on August 16th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI Report Server release & interview Adam Saxton, Microsoft's "Guy in a Cube".
For show notes please visit w…
00:30:33 |
Tue 21 Aug 2018
Episode 61 - Interview with Lukasz Pawlowski
This is episode 61 recorded on August 9th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Lukasz Pawlowski, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI team at Microsoft, and mention highlights from the August Power BI …
00:38:57 |
Tue 14 Aug 2018
Episode 60 - End of an Era
This is episode 60 recorded on August 7th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about a new initiative for Power BI Beginners & the deprecation and removal of BI Features in SharePoint 2019.
00:29:01 |
Wed 08 Aug 2018
Episode 59 - Interview with Will Thompson
This is episode 59 recorded on July 31st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about SPSNYC, sessions for Ignite, and interview Will Thompson from the Power BI Desktop Team at Microsoft.
For show notes plea…
00:33:38 |
Thu 02 Aug 2018
Episode 58 - Power BI Desktop Update & the Road Ahead
This is episode 58 recorded on July 25th 2018 where John & Jason talk about Business Application Summit after-the-fact, The Road Ahead for Power BI & SharePoint blog post, and do a deep dive on the P…
00:33:31 |
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Episode 57 - Business Application Summit Keynote Recap
This is episode 57 recorded on July 23rd 2018 where John & Jason recap the announcements at the 2018 Business Application Summit in Seattle, Washington.
For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
00:27:11 |
Tue 24 Jul 2018
Episode 56 - June Developer & Gateway news
This is episode 56 recorded on July 12th 2018 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Research Open Data, Developer & Gateway news, Power BI Desktop vs Service, and MVP renewals.
For show notes plea…
00:28:00 |
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Episode 55 - Power Of The Cloud
This is episode 55 recorded on June 28th 2018 where John & Jason talk about a few recent bugs and service interruptions, the recent Power of the Cloud conference, PowerApps, Flow, and some recent imp…
00:23:34 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
Episode 54 - Miscellaneous News
This is episode 54 recorded on June 21th 2018… where John & Jason talk about mobile app configuration of PBIRS settings, a new way of analyzing Excel in Power BI, and the upcoming Power BI Embedded d…
00:26:17 |
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Episode 53 - New Initiatives
This is episode 53 recorded on June 13th 2018… where John & Jason talk about new initiatives in their world, discussed MyAnalytics, Azure Machine Learning, and some of the Power BI Service limits & w…
00:26:59 |
Wed 20 Jun 2018
Episode 52 - Power BI Desktop June update
This is episode 52 recorded on June 7th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the new Power BI Desktop update & the role of Power BI Desktop.
For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
00:25:52 |
Tue 12 Jun 2018
Episode 51 - Power BI news
This is episode 51 recorded on June 7th 2018… where John & Jason talk about news in the Power BI space, the Power BI Developer community update for May, and some twitter shenanigans.
For show notes …
00:26:01 |
Sat 09 Jun 2018
Episode 50 - Live from SPCNA
This is episode 50 recorded live on May 21st 2018… where John & Jason talk the announcements & other things happening at the SharePoint Conference North America in Las Vegas.
For show notes please …
00:27:41 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
Episode 49 - SPCNA session picks with Liz Sundet
This is episode 49 recorded on May 15th, 2018… where John & Jason talk to Liz Sundet, Office Servers & Services MVP from Minnesota, about the upcoming SPCNA Conference in Las Vegas next week and some…
00:25:53 |
Wed 16 May 2018
Episode 48 - Power BI Desktop May updates
This is episode 48 recorded on May 8th 2018… where John & Jason talk about Guy in a Cube's new video, and walk through the new features of the May 2018 Power BI Desktop which includes the much antici…
00:36:21 |
Wed 09 May 2018
Episode 47 - Update on Excel with Olaf Hubel
This is episode 47 recorded on April 30th 2018… where John & Jason interview Olaf Hubel, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the Excel Engineering team.
For show notes please visit http://www.bif…
00:32:19 |
Tue 01 May 2018
Episode 46 - Community news & updates
This is episode 46 recorded on April 17th 2018… where John & Jason talk about a whole bunch of miscellaneous items including GDPR, OneNote, Moving from SSRS SharePoint Integrated Mode, and SharePoint…
00:24:45 |
Thu 26 Apr 2018
Episode 45 - All about the new CDSA & CDS-A
This is episode 45 recorded on April 12th 2018… where John & Jason take a deep dive on the announcements about the new Common Data Service for Analytics and the new Common Data Service for Apps.
For…
00:31:46 |
Tue 17 Apr 2018
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